Scenario Testing Contracts

Scenario Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 402 400
Rank change year-on-year +76 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 265 305 565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.61% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 209 386
10th Percentile £323 £363 £317
25th Percentile £363 £410 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £570 £675 £538
90th Percentile £688 £775 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £429
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.90% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £28.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -49.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scenario Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +59 210 £462 -7.60% 81
London +81 122 £475 -24.00% 42
Work from Home +87 105 £475 -5.00% 23
UK excluding London +11 93 £425 -5.56% 40
South East +11 28 £475 +13.10% 11
Midlands +26 15 £363 -3.33% 7
Scotland +19 13 £475 +10.98% 4
North of England +4 13 £413 -17.50% 4
East Midlands +16 12 £363 -3.33% 5
East of England +13 12 £375 -46.43% 4
South West +3 12 £500 +8.11% 7
North West +14 6 £400 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire +6 6 - -
West Midlands +13 3 £344 -40.22% 2
North East +12 1 £450 -28.00%

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.77%) Confluence
2 6 (2.26%) CMS
3 5 (1.89%) IIS
4 4 (1.51%) JBoss
5 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.89%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (1.51%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.51%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (1.13%) Endur
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle HRMS
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.13%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.13%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.13%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.21%) Azure
2 22 (8.30%) AWS
3 19 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.02%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.89%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.89%) SAP Fieldglass
8 4 (1.51%) Azure API Management
8 4 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.51%) OCI
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.13%) GCP
9 3 (1.13%) GitHub
9 3 (1.13%) Serverless
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) LAN
2 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (1.89%) Power BI
2 4 (1.51%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (1.51%) DB2
2 4 (1.51%) MS Access
2 4 (1.51%) Tableau
3 2 (0.75%) Big Data
3 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.38%) Impala
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (16.98%) JIRA
2 24 (9.06%) Selenium
3 23 (8.68%) Cucumber
4 16 (6.04%) Postman
5 13 (4.91%) JMeter
6 12 (4.53%) Jenkins
7 10 (3.77%) LoadRunner
8 7 (2.64%) Gatling
9 6 (2.26%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.26%) Git
9 6 (2.26%) JUnit
9 6 (2.26%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.51%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.51%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.13%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.13%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.75%) Serenity BDD
General
1 90 (33.96%) Finance
2 65 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.43%) Banking
5 21 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.66%) Retail
7 9 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.64%) Legal
8 7 (2.64%) Marketing
9 6 (2.26%) Billing
9 6 (2.26%) Games
10 5 (1.89%) Back Office
10 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.13%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.13%) Local Government
11 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 83 (31.32%) Analyst
2 44 (16.60%) Tester
3 36 (13.58%) Test Analyst
4 24 (9.06%) Lead
4 24 (9.06%) Senior
5 23 (8.68%) Business Analyst
5 23 (8.68%) Consultant
6 22 (8.30%) Test Manager
7 17 (6.42%) Architect
7 17 (6.42%) Test Engineer
7 17 (6.42%) Test Leader
8 14 (5.28%) Manual Tester
9 13 (4.91%) QA Engineer
10 12 (4.53%) Data Analyst
11 10 (3.77%) Automation Tester
12 9 (3.40%) QA Tester
12 9 (3.40%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (3.02%) Oracle Analyst
13 8 (3.02%) Project Analyst
13 8 (3.02%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.53%) REST
2 10 (3.77%) ADO
2 10 (3.77%) Swagger
3 8 (3.02%) Gherkin
4 6 (2.26%) Spring
5 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.89%) HTML
5 5 (1.89%) JSON
5 5 (1.89%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.89%) XML
6 4 (1.51%) CSS
6 4 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.51%) Web Services
7 3 (1.13%) Kafka
7 3 (1.13%) Node.js
8 2 (0.75%) Apache Camel
8 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.75%) SOAP
8 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.89%) PKI
4 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.51%) e-Health
5 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.13%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.75%) Derivative
7 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.75%) FMCG
7 2 (0.75%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.38%) NHS
8 1 (0.38%) Replication
8 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.15%) Unix
2 10 (3.77%) Windows
3 9 (3.40%) Linux
4 5 (1.89%) AIX
4 5 (1.89%) VMS
5 4 (1.51%) Solaris
6 3 (1.13%) Android
6 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.72%) Test Automation
2 89 (33.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 78 (29.43%) Agile
4 60 (22.64%) Test Scripting
5 50 (18.87%) Test Strategy
6 49 (18.49%) End-to-End Testing
7 41 (15.47%) DevOps
8 38 (14.34%) Migration
9 37 (13.96%) Regression Testing
10 36 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.21%) Acceptance Criteria
12 33 (12.45%) Test Management
13 32 (12.08%) User Stories
14 29 (10.94%) Manual Testing
15 28 (10.57%) Scrum
16 27 (10.19%) Functional Testing
17 26 (9.81%) Software Testing
17 26 (9.81%) System Integration Testing
17 26 (9.81%) Test Planning
18 24 (9.06%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.96%) SQL
2 23 (8.68%) Java
3 18 (6.79%) Python
4 16 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.51%) C#
5 4 (1.51%) Perl
5 4 (1.51%) Ruby
6 3 (1.13%) ABAP
6 3 (1.13%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) Scala
8 1 (0.38%) SOQL
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.43%) Degree
3 19 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.02%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.51%) CIPD
7 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.13%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCA
8 1 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (24.15%) QA
2 12 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.51%) PMO
5 3 (1.13%) WCAG
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.89%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.89%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.51%) Opsgenie
2 4 (1.51%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.13%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (13.96%) SAP
2 34 (12.83%) Oracle
3 27 (10.19%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.53%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.64%) Splunk
7 6 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.26%) HP
8 5 (1.89%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.51%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.51%) F5
9 4 (1.51%) IBM
9 4 (1.51%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.51%) VMware
10 3 (1.13%) Adobe
10 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.13%) OpenText
10 3 (1.13%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.75%) OneTrust